Its apple season and Big Mac seem to hurt himself from doing something. AJ stubbornly insist that she can harvest all these apples alone and she will pay the price for her stubbornness. With that in mind, would you consider AJ as a main character in her own episode or just a walking plot item? Why would AJ insist in helping her friends in their activities if she cannot keep herself awake?

>>13120249No, actually, Applejack pretty much was a non-character in that episode. In fact, she kind of just acted as an obstacle for the other characters, with Twilight Sparkle as the protagonist and Applejack as the antagonist.

>>13120341That is how I see it as well. AJ did not really do anything other than being stubborn and broke down when she found out she only did half the apple orchard. Posters keep insisting that this is an AJ episode despite the fact she didn't really do much at all.

>>13120679It's not that difficult, you just have to get some more experience talking with them

It sounds terrible but the real trick is tuning out the words and seeing how open their expressions are, and if she's fidgeting a lot with a glass or what have you. Mystery Method shit about how their hips are angled is often bullshit, but women (especially the young and inexperienced) actually look like they're tense, muscles singing, ready to pounce

There's this eye flex thing I've noticed and literal nostril flaring. It's mostly unconscious but when they do it while looking at me it typically means I'm going to get ridden by the end of the night.

>there are people who SERIOUSLY think that Fluttershy wasn't the best thing about EG

Everyone else was completely shit (Dash was just annoying with her constant "hurr awesome" shit, Rarity was just bland and boring and everyone else was a waste of space), but FS came out relatively fine.

>>13120729If there's ever a TV series or sequel I really, really want her to be lab partners with Fluttershy only for them to get along swimmingly and some uncomfortable parallels made between her and Twilight.

>>13120807Fluttershy having a little backbone was a nice change of pace. At her first introduction in Friendship is Magic she'd never have said "It's not really yours" even in passing, and certainly wouldn't have the gall to have the "Who the fuck IS this bitch" look at lunch.

>>13120815My theory is that the EqG universe makes everyone in it dumber. Because so much shit was retarded.>Doesn't ask for the crown directly>Luna being tricked by goddamn cut photos>not doing anything to Sunset after finding they were fake as fuck>everyone goes back to the dance after half the school was destroyed, there was a huge ass crater in the middle of the yard, after being enslaved and almost sent to war in a different dimension>The one that did all of that, instead of getting life in prison or the death penalty gets community service from the school, not the police who apparently doesn't give a fuck, just because she cried a bit and said she never had friends

>>13120883Also another theory is that it's some kind of corner from hell.See nothing outside the school grounds actually exists. It's just a looping timeline that repeats itself whenever High school ends for a promotion.

I mean Sunset has been there for at least 10 years. Same as the rest of the girls.

>>13120883> just because she cried a bit and said she never had friends

After what Faust had to say ages ago about "girl characters who solve things chiefly by crying" that actually bothered me. That said the fact there was no military response and not even a CNN van bugged me worse.

>>13120938Meghan knew it was really badly written, so she tried to throw in things that would make bronies like it more and distract them from the awful writing.>SEE THIS? RAINBOW DASH SAYS AWESOME A LOT. THAT'S JUST LIKE THE SHOW. EG IS JUST AS GOOD AS THE SHOW AND IS FLAWLESS. END OF DISCUSSION STOP BEING A PARASPRITE HATER.

>>13120938Really they probably didn't even try, I mena take Nicole as Principal Celestia. Besides that last part, those 5 lines at the end she didn't give any kind of fuck. I honestly believe that no one, not the writers, not the VAs, not the animators even tried. They just went trough it as fast as they could and have it done.

>>13120963Yeah see this kinda bothered me too. Fluttershy would respect the goddamn rules. She doesn't go with her animal friends to see Celestia or in town. She leaves them at home.Here in the movie? Well she's Fluttershy because...LOOK SHE GOT ANIMALS. THAT'S TOTALLY A FLUTTERSHY THING.

You know the Equestria Girls for the most part aren't 1=1 the same characters as their ponies. Twilight was the only actual one to be the same, and her Equestria Girl counterpart hasn't even met any of the usual gang of six except probably Pinkie.

>>13120991I've been saying that since the beginning. They live in a different world, different society, different anatomy, different lives, different things.They are completely different character from the pony counterparts besides sharing a few traits.

hell in the show it's clear that the other 5 weren't really good friends before Twilight came. I mean there was Rarity with Fluttershy, Pinkie with the rest, Fluttershy with Dash and maybe Dash with AJ. twilight coming made them all closer.

Good day MLPG, I just came back from BUCK.I suspect that some of you probably watched a few of the panels on the stream and that you already know the gist of what happened at them.

However, there's always stuff that happens at conventions that doesn't get streamed and I'll be posting a short writeup of the convention and any related drama that you may find entertaining as well as any photos I snapped.

I was sharing a room with Knighty, and if on the odd chance that any britfags who went are here, you may have seen me wearing these around my neck and lugging around a plushie of the convention's mascot on my shoulder for most of the weekend.

Also, what news did I miss? Why are you nerds saying hamburger time is over? Did the impossible happen? I thought S4 was due to start in November or some shit

>>13121169Knighty's panel was the one we didn't see, Everfree did a horrible job with the streams as usual, although some of that wasn't their fault, took them 15 minutes after the panel started to start the stream and then 5 minutes later the internet died at the con.

>>13121169Friday started with the Summer Sun Celebration and was essentially a rave. The venue was enormous and it was really well handled. Well until the doors broke apparently. Somebody broke the doors.

They had this big illuminated sign outside the venue all evening and it was pretty cool to see. The music was usual brony musician fare, though a lot of it was noisecore/speedcore when they could've done with some more typical club stuff IMO.I realise this is basically blogging so I'll sum up the funny stuff next post and drop a few cosplay pics since there were some really nice ones there

>>13121244>Find a Pet>Better than anythingYeah, nah. Smile is on the level of all of those other ones posted, they're not better than it. They all occupy the group of "awesome songs", save for Find a Pet of course, which is fedoracore.

>>13121278The only time i've cried (or at least watered my eyes) was when my sister was watching AFID and Smile x 3 started playing after months of not listening to it. I got swelled up with so many feels.

To sum up the funny stuff- Some dude from National Geographic showed up and interviewed a bunch of people and then entered into the cosplay contest (mainly attractive cosplayers). The whole thing was kind of weird since I couldn't tell if he was taking the piss out of the convention or just trying really hard to get into it, I guess we'll find out when that documentary airs whenever.

- This one you may have seen if you watched the cosplay contest. There was one Discord cosplayer who was acting kind of weird. I pointed him out as "that guy has problems" to Knighty on the friday pretty much as soon as I tried to interact with him, because when I said hi to him he looked at me strangely and walked off. In the contest he threw himself at the legs of the person hosting it and he was allegedly expelled from the convention later on for sexual harassment. Actually he'd been stalking that girl all day from what I heard and continuing to act really weirdly.

>>13121290Oh I agree but then she's a model and she makes costumes professionally for companies to promote stuff so she's not a hobbyist I suppose.

>>13121288the first two thirds were great, but resolution felt a bit rushed, maybe if instead of having the final third of the episode be the alicorn coronation shit they devoted the entire episode to the cutie marks switching it would be top tier

>>13121358>There was one Discord cosplayer who was acting kind of weird. I pointed him out as "that guy has problems" to Knighty on the friday pretty much as soon as I tried to interact with him, because when I said hi to him he looked at me strangely and walked off. In the contest he threw himself at the legs of the person hosting it and he was allegedly expelled from the convention later on for sexual harassment. Actually he'd been stalking that girl all day from what I heard and continuing to act really weirdly.Hah

>>13121358Yeah we saw both the the Discord and the natgeo guy on the cosplay competition. The latter really seemed like he was trying to shit on bronies without them noticing, but if he mainly interviewed attractive cosplayers that could be wrong, since if you want to shit on a brony convention your number one stop are the bad cosplayers.

>>13121246>>13121278If it means anything, I felt a nice, warm feeling inside of me when I watch that finale. Maybe its because after 2 years of watching ponies, we watch these ponies live their lives, having adventures, solve problems, and grow up right up to that point. The Matrix Room was a nice touch to see all those flash back. The episode felt like its THE last episode if Hasbro wanted to end it.

>>13121447It was made to be the last episode in case the show went completely to crap and bleeding money like crazy and they canceled it.They play safe. One of the main reasons why there were on;y 13 episodes. To reach the magical 65.

>>13121358- Quick follow up on the Discord cosplayer who was booted for sexual harassment: I found out later that he was interviewed at some point by BBC Radio 5 for some reason regarding bronies. They honestly could not have picked a worse person for pretty much anything, my god that guy was awful and creepy.

- There were actually a lot less people in fedoras than I expected, probably only counted like 7 over the weekend with the total attendees being about 1100. A lot of the crowd just seemed more like untidy skinny nerds than anything else.

- I managed to ask LivingTombstone a question during his panel which was about how he felt that his remix of Eurobeat's Discord is more popular than any of his own original songs, one of the other musicians on the panel basically said that if you want to be popular, find a good piece of music that already exists and remix that instead. That cracked me up.

- The guy who bought that awful Twilight fursuit actually had to return it because he had no way to take it home. It ended up that the guy who runs the convention bought it and he is having to take it home on the train. Makes me wonder where the rest of the suits from that set are since there's more of them.Knighty won the Snowdrop plushie in the charity auction and I won a statuette of the convention's mascot.

>>13121392Yeah that's my thoughts exactly. If he just wanted to make the convention look bad he'd have interviewed the guys with the neckbeards, not the pretty girls in pretty dresses.I wish I got a good picture of the gala dress Derpy cosplay, she was also incredibly pretty.

>>13121522>There were actually a lot less people in fedoras than I expected, probably only counted like 7 over the weekend with the total attendees being about 1100. A lot of the crowd just seemed more like untidy skinny nerds than anything else.Because it's Europe. Honestly the people oustside the US and Canada seem to have their shit together for the most part.

>>13121560At galacon there weren't as many fedoras as at other cons, but holy shit the people who wore them were absolutely bronyOne of them actually had a fedora completely covered in MLP pins, I wish I could have taken a picture

>>13121623You may have seen her already, I got a picture of her last year at Londom MCM Expo that gets posted occasionally. She has manface in that too.There was a "King Celestia" cosplay dude though and he had a long beard and a phoenix prop that he carried around with him, didn't manage to get a picture of him though.

>>13121346>Find a Pet in Shit Tier>Becoming Popular in Shit Tier>Love is in Bloom in Shit Tier>Celestia's Ballad in Shit Tier>Implying Pinkie's Singing Telegram and Giggle at the Ghosties is in Shit Tier

During the panel with Creber and 3 of the writers, Amy's mic sucked and kept cutting out. Poor woman almost looked like she was going to break down at one point I laughed

I learned a little more about that one story about LMJ's hiking trip in which he fainted from dehydration because he was a retard and only brought Hawaiian Punch to drink. Turns out, after he passed out he wasn't found and brought to through normal means, no. His friend poured Hawaiian Punch on LMJ's face until he woke up. Good shit.

There's not much else that any of you guys would probably find funny from an outsider's point of view that you don't already know about I guess.Overall though, I enjoyed it and had a good time. In all likelyhood will go again next year considering how much it improved from last year's convention.

Oh, I guess Knighty was selling prints for SmittyG who couldn't make it since they had already filled on vendor applications. It's against the rules to sell stuff unless you're a vendor but he ended up selling most of the stuff to the convention staff regardless because nobody cares about venue-enforced rules

Oh and I got to join in on the musician "brunch" (walk into a mall and get stuff rom the food court) today since Knighty was meeting a friend and I tagged along. Reminded me of being back in college since nobody talked to anyone who wasn't in their clique unless the conversation was initiated by me.

>>13121670Only on one of the Discord cosplayers, who ended up winning one of the cosplay prizes.

>>13121799>I learned a little more about that one story about LMJ's hiking trip in which he fainted from dehydration because he was a retard and only brought Hawaiian Punch to drink. Turns out, after he passed out he wasn't found and brought to through normal means, no. His friend poured Hawaiian Punch on LMJ's face until he woke up. Good shit.

>>13122071sorry! it's not exactly a content i'm too familiar with, but at the same time i feel bad making people wait for it. i'm doin' the best i can with it thoughand yeah it's generic pony/human, but there's honestly not many cute pony/human comics like this, or not as many as there should be

>>13122212oh no, i really really like drawing this and wanna keep drawing ithe was just giving critique on the quality of my nsfw content of my comic which is totally reasonablei really like drawing something i'm not familiar with and having the pressure of drawing it fast; helps a lot for style and improvement. Of course it won't be perfect though; still a lot to improve on!

>>13122252> as cultural heroes, all main six characters are celebrities with merchandise, both licensed and unlicensed> Fluttershy has an extensive collection of all of them, all the while claiming "It's really Angel's thing"> Dash has a shrine to herself> AJ tries licensing out cider using her brand name, but no one buys it - other providers are cheaper and customers don't like the smile on her face. What if it's just apple-scented piss? You'd never know, coming from PONYville.

>>13122289rarity would demand the highest quality for all her merchandise and be offended at the knock-offsnot because they are taking away business from her, but because they were poorly stitched and dont use the proper colors

>>13122251I like Time Turner and Ditzy Doo more than the retarded brony they got stuck with

inb4 but we named them!! Yeah yeah yeah but back then they weren't even names they were just means to identify a pony. It's like seeing a black guy on the street and calling him "Nigger" as if it's his real name

look, in the comic i'm talking about, the girl gets this glare from her dad and tries to eat the french toast, then throws it up, then tries to eat the puke. and her family is upset with her just like lyra and bonbon are upset at pinkie in that post above.

>>13122154what's not to gethis anatomy is off at times, his males and females ponies look the same outside of obvious differences, and when he tries to go for the harder stuff (like humans), it just falls aparthis scale is another problem, things change size in between panels, it shows moreso in the nsfw pinkie, but it's a persistent problem in many artists

>>13122720> YOU WANT TO DATE A WHAT> YOU WANT WHAT INSTEAD OF HOOVES> LADY, YOU GOT PROBLEMSThe worst part is that her voice is so piercing now EVERYONE knowsLyra isn' certain whether to cry or pee herself in fearPretty certain she'll opt for both simultaneously

>>13122734I don't disagree with everything you point out, but the nature of this specific semi-cyoa prompt-fest is kind of a speedy sketchy high-output thing. It seems weird you're being more critical of this than his more fleshed-out pieces.

Oh i totally get thatusually this place is the only place i can actually GET criticismthough i think i've only been "getting away with" no crits on pinkie quest is because people either really liked the art as it was or understood it was done fast/sketchy or idk.at the same time doing it has brought out some things i really do need to work on (scaling and humans of course cause i've never really drawn them before), but i went into this knowing i'd be drawing something i barely ever draw and just hoping it turned out alrightobviously pankquest isn't a finished work or even something i put a CRAZY amount of thought/effort into art-skill-wise, but it's helping me improve or at least find what I need to improve. [/spoiler]

>>13122783he got here at the time MLPG started to suck at being constructive. and he isn't used to being confronted about that. you may have noticed that every single time he got reasonable critique he came up with excuses or evaded the question and none of the issues that were addressed have led to any significant results. he let his popularity get to his head. he to some extent feels he's above criticism which also makes him believe he is in any position to give advice or make tutorials.

You're kidding. While drawing Dark Souls is legitimate since it actually does have some interesting armor designs, ponies are a polar opposite and would only drag down the appeal of the Dark Souls side.

>>13123183You tell that to them, I've even made up a whole universe in my head in which they go to when I'm not talking to them. They live together and just hang out, until I want to talk to them in which they appear in my head. I like to visualize them interacting with anything near me like lying on the bed etc.

>>13122841i feel if these threads are the only place to get criticism, there really shouldn't be any exceptions on what to criticise, but then again, you definitely need more work on those areas, and the only way is to keep trying, i guess

>>13122907if i'm to criticise a finished work, i'll have to criticise something similar to this one, and there's really only one like that

Dark Souls is more enjoyable than MLP, especially since it's a game, so MLP does nothing but take away from that experience when combined. A piece of dog shit could get ran over by a tire that's part of a BMW, but people will only notice the turd ruining the car, not praising the turd for being lucky enough to be ran over by a luxury car, get it?

An enjoyable crossover needs shit that can gel together. Good example I can think of? Ghouls n' Ghosts with Castlevania. Both men, both somewhere in Europe, both relying on magic and the holy side, using precise, economic movement and attacks, kill monsters of the night, especially those relating to the underworld in the spartan action and difficulty that defined those games. While GnG is more light-hearted in visual tone, Castlevania still evens out by being light-hearted in its music, with its 80s synth and hard rock combined with classical influences.

>>13123083>>13123117>>13123349>>13123362>>13123365>horribly failing on request of some tripfag>3 sketch in a row turned out as failure>check mlpg out of boredom and frustation>people talking about new artist>pff he can't be that good for a beginner>check it out>OH COME ONFUCK

>>13123401It really is, though. The term came from wh40k's 'in the grim darkness of the 41st century, there is only war', and everybody knew that wh40k was a parody of the overly stupid grim depictions of a war torn universe, so grimdark became a term for things that tried to hard to be dark and ended up a parody.

>>13123567Right, that's the symbol for inequality, but != can also be used to indicate that.In particulay, != is used in a bunch of programming languages to indicate the "return true if these two values are not the same" function, which I suspect is where Anon's picked it up from.

Why are you guys even talking? If you aren't naturally gifted, then you will never have the same potential as someone who is. It's like someone without legs wanting to do basketball. Sure there are those who still play in wheelchairs, but they will never beat someone who was born right. People like to see pros do their skill, not losers. Just accept that you will never be as good and stop.

>>13123774SB improved drastically in just a year over a level of quality I wouldn't describe as "natural talent". GG being crazy doesn't change the fact he's seen massive success and no one would call him talented.